Automorph Technology: The Secret of the Movie Transformations?
Friday, January 26th, 2007 4:04AM CST
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AUTOMORPH Technology is a new TRANSFORMERS Technology developed to enhance the vehicle to robot conversion of both AUTOBOT and DECEPTICON warriors, getting them ready and into battle faster. Moving one part of the robot or vehicle causes other parts to move, making armor plates and weapons shift automatically. Easier, faster conversion can mean the difference between victory and defeat in the battle for the AllSpark!
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Posted 10 hours agoPosted by Glyph on January 26th, 2007 @ 4:19am CST
Posted by Kayevcee on January 26th, 2007 @ 4:47am CST
*I've never had a problem with my one, anyway.
-Nick
Posted by Nemesis Cyberplex on January 26th, 2007 @ 5:03am CST
Posted by MantaScorp on January 26th, 2007 @ 6:14am CST
Poor Alternator Optimus, sitting up there gathering dust... *sigh*
Posted by GeidiPrime on January 26th, 2007 @ 6:29am CST
Posted by on January 26th, 2007 @ 6:55am CST
Air Commander Starscream wrote:We reported here a new auction for a boxed Transformers Movie Ratchet . One of the pictures is of the side of the box where it explains about how the Transformers transform in the new Transformers Movie. It is called Automorph Technology.
AUTOMORPH Technology is a new TRANSFORMERS Technology developed to enhance the vehicle to robot conversion of both AUTOBOT and DECEPTICON warriors, getting them ready and into battle faster. Moving one part of the robot or vehicle causes other parts to move, making armor plates and weapons shift automatically. Easier, faster conversion can mean the difference between victory and defeat in the battle for the AllSpark!
Hmmm... sounds like a transformation to me.
Posted by Calenatarion on January 26th, 2007 @ 7:14am CST
Glyph wrote:Hmm... That sounds to me more like a toy gimmick than the movie nanotech explanation.
Yeah.. and it isn't even that new. Just something to make the kids happy.
Posted by Bot Marley on January 26th, 2007 @ 7:44am CST
Posted by Sideshow Sideswipe on January 26th, 2007 @ 8:09am CST
Posted by Liege Evilmus on January 26th, 2007 @ 8:12am CST
Take the old G1 cars, most of the arms folded into the engine, but they had no engine like qualities. So I can see how the transformation would benthe direct parts of the car becoming the head, limbs, and whatnot.
I think they could have made it look better, but the concept is right.
Posted by Liege Evilmus on January 26th, 2007 @ 8:18am CST
Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:Eh....if it means that their transformations won't be so complicated I'm all for it. Personally I kinda miss the good-ol days of G1 where usually you didn't have to do the transforming sound 15+ times before you could get your figure from one mode to the other. Makes them more fun. That's why my Alternators are sitting pretty on a shelf untransformed for months while other simplier TFs are sitting on my desk within reaching distance.
Agreed, only Windcharger and Hound get changed often.
And why is it when people come over and try to change a bot, they don't go for the easy Jetfire next to them, the always pick up Alt Grimlock.
They get half way through, screw him up then give the mess back to me. That figure is great, but a pain in the ass!
Posted by Black Bumblebee on January 26th, 2007 @ 8:28am CST
If it doesn't take too long to transform, there's little reason to get it off the shelf.
I don't want something that "auto-transforms" either... that piece of $^%@$% called Armada Prime was one of the most TF ever and I'd hate to see it repeated.
Posted by Immortal Starscream on January 26th, 2007 @ 8:43am CST
Posted by Ultra Magnus on January 26th, 2007 @ 8:46am CST
Uh, what are they even talking about? It's cool. It's something for me to read while I eat my Cereal.
Posted by Redimus on January 26th, 2007 @ 8:49am CST
I like complex transformations, but as with many others it's the simple ones i reach for when im just fiddling. (The cyb scouts pretty much go me through my Final Year Project.)
Posted by josephex on January 26th, 2007 @ 9:01am CST
Posted by Redimus on January 26th, 2007 @ 9:04am CST
josephex wrote:So, does anyone think that Automorph technology will eventually grow more advanced into size shifting?
Im not sure the toy technology is quite there yet... lol
Posted by Maldroth on January 26th, 2007 @ 9:15am CST
Ultra Magnus wrote:
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Uh, what are they even talking about? It's cool. It's something for me to read while I eat my Cereal.
You know with all the movie merchandising I wanna know just where is my sweetened oat cereal that transforms my milk and allspark marshmallows so even you too can join the hunt for the allspark...
Posted by First-Aid on January 26th, 2007 @ 9:56am CST
Posted by jgilkinson on January 26th, 2007 @ 10:47am CST
Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:Eh....if it means that their transformations won't be so complicated I'm all for it. Personally I kinda miss the good-ol days of G1 where usually you didn't have to do the transforming sound 15+ times before you could get your figure from one mode to the other. Makes them more fun. That's why my Alternators are sitting pretty on a shelf untransformed for months while other simplier TFs are sitting on my desk within reaching distance.
agreed... my Beast Machines Striker is still on my desk in a half transformed lump while my BW optimius Primal gets transformed at least once a day. Dont even get me started on Alt Prowl...
Posted by Wheeljack35 on January 26th, 2007 @ 1:00pm CST
Posted by kataridragon on January 26th, 2007 @ 2:16pm CST
agreed... my Beast Machines Striker is still on my desk in a half transformed lump while my BW optimius Primal gets transformed at least once a day. Dont even get me started on Alt Prowl...
Omg I hate the Alt Prowls transformation everytime I have ever transformed it I lose a door, half a bumper, and or a foot usually all three. He need some Automorph technology.
Posted by Barricade on January 26th, 2007 @ 3:45pm CST
same here i like transformations (alt wheeljack for example) where you get to the point where you says "how the f*CK do i get the arms in again!?!?!?!?!?!'.... people who dont like it i got one word for you..... GOBOTS!!!!!!Redimus wrote:wooo, new random concept to be engulphed into the transformers universe.
I like complex transformations, but as with many others it's the simple ones i reach for when im just fiddling. (The cyb scouts pretty much go me through my Final Year Project.)
Posted by the purifyer on January 26th, 2007 @ 4:20pm CST
Posted by Thunder_breaker on January 26th, 2007 @ 4:53pm CST
Posted by Immortal Starscream on January 26th, 2007 @ 5:13pm CST
however i am glad that theyre taking that basic concept to a whole new leval. even if the bots look fugly as hell, its good to see new innovations in transformer designs.
Posted by Anonymous on January 26th, 2007 @ 5:15pm CST
Posted by on January 26th, 2007 @ 6:21pm CST
Bot Marley wrote:this is news why? it's so obvious it's just a toy gimmick. automorph technology. like that's somthing a cybertronian came up with. i wonder if they'll even use that term in the movie. i really wouldnt think so, but i guess we wont know till 7-4-7
I agree that it doesn't seem new to us. However, I am glad that the News Team reported it.
Posted by Nemesis Cyberplex on January 26th, 2007 @ 11:44pm CST
Also, I don't exactly like the idea of these robots "morphing". I mean, basically the words transform & morph mean the same thing: to change.....but to me, it's a bit more. Transforming seems more like moving pieces of one object to make it take a different shape....i.e. A robot that changes shape to look like a car, but is still in fact, a robot, whereas "morphing" seems more like one object becoming another alltogether....i.e. a robot actually changing into a car, therefore making it no longer a robot, but a car. Little subtle differences like that scare me, because if such things are sought after, it could take TF's away from the very defining elements that has made it so popular.
Posted by dragons on January 28th, 2007 @ 10:11pm CST